In this issue of “Five Count,” I’ll be looking at five lessons that WWE can learn from recent Royal Rumble matches, analyzing what has worked well in recent history and how WWE has managed to drain […]
RISING STAR OF THE WEEK: Bayley Hey, what a turn around seven days will do for you, especially when it’s wrapped up in WWE’s roller coaster world of whacky booking. Bayley went from “Dishonorable Mention” […]
HITS “The Villain” Marty Scurll: I know Marty Scurll won the ROH TV Title a few months ago, but to some ROH viewers in the U.S., Scurll is a relatively new face to wrestling […]
The social media reaction to Ronda Rousey’s loss at UFC 207 last a few weeks ago came so feverishly, I’m surprised there wasn’t seismic activity from the number of people pounding on their keyboards. As soon […]
It’s not easy being a heel in pro wrestling in 2016. Crowds seem so conditioned to root for the anti-hero that the bad guys come off as far cooler than the squeaky clean baby face. […]
Be honest here, if you had been asked before the brand split which wrestler would benefit the most, would you have said The Miz? No, neither would I. And yet the A-lister took a chance, forced […]
Before we get started, I just wanted to note that every week Mike McMahon and I will be hosting a PWTorch Livecast TNA Impact post-show. It starts right after Impact ends. We’ll be recapping Impact, […]
Talking Smack has quickly become Must See TV. That is very high praise for a Network special that promotes sitting down and talking over wrestling on a wrestling network. It’s smooth, easy viewing that appeals […]
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla’s Battle of Los Angeles is arguably the hottest ticket in independent wrestling year in and year out. It should be no surprise, then, that a limited edition trading card set from PWG’s […]
We are less than two weeks away from the Royal Rumble pay per view and wrestlers on both shows are jockeying for a position on the Wrestlemania card. Smackdown undoubtedly won the week but there […]
SMACKDOWN HITS Miz vs. Styles: While I did not like the set up for this match during the poor opening segment (more later), the match itself was good. It went nearly 11 minutes and featured […]
RAW HITS Opening Segment: This was a good Raw. And it got off to a good start. Normally I don’t say that when the show starts with Roman Reigns coming out to talk. I wasn’t […]
SMACKDOWN HITS Ambrose Asylum: This was a pretty good start to Smackdown. You got the expected announcements that both Dean Ambrose and The Miz are entered in the Royal Rumble. The mic work from both Ambrose […]
SMOKY MOUNTAIN WRESTLING FEBRUARY 15, 1992 AIRED IN SYNDICATION REPORT BY MIKE MILLS, PWTORCH SPECIALIST SHOW SUMMARY – The show starts off with Jim Cornette and Bob Caudle going over the lineup for this […]
Roman Reigns is one of the most divisive and talked about WWE performers in history. The company makes desperate play after desperate play to make him their number one star – thus far to no […]
SMACKDOWN PREVIEW JANUARY 17, 2017 MEMPHIS, TENN. AT FED EX FORUM By Joey Galizia (@RamJam89), PWTorch Specialist “HISTORY IS HISTORY….BLOOD IS BLOOD” In Chicago Becky Lynch failed to regain the SD Women’s Championship over Alexa […]
Brock Lesnar used to be the biggest draw in combat sports entertainment. He used to be the most dominant fighter in the world. Brock used to be really scary. That was two entire presidential cycles […]
In the previous instalment of “Five Count,” I looked at five lessons for WWE to learn from 2016 and because there’s so many lessons to be taught from an entire year, I’m back again with […]
WWE RAW PREVIEW JANUARY 16, 2017 LITTLE ROCK, ARK. AT VERIZON ARENA REPORT BY JOEY GALICIA (@RamJam89), PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR “THE CONQUERED BEGINS HIS PATH TO REDEMPTION” For the first time since his defeat at the hands of […]
The latest PWTorch.com monthly unboxing video for ProWrestlingCrate.com features an unboxing of their November 2016 crate with the theme “Wrestlers With the Same Name.” There are several changes in store for PWCrate subscribers under the […]
HITS The Rebellion (Caprice Coleman, Kenny King, Rhett Titus) vs. Lio Rush, Jay White, and Donovan Dijak: I like that we got a recap from a previous episode when Lio Rush was attacked by Titus […]
New Walmart Exclusives Walmart is the exclusive distributor for several WWE toy lines from Mattel, and many of those were already on local shelves before the Christmas clutter could even be cleared away. Many collectors […]
Pick of the Week: ECW Heatwave 1998 Event Date: August 2, 1998 Location: Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio “E-C-W! E-C-W! E-C-W!” – Three letters synonymous with the act of violence, danger & anarchy. A powerful […]
Welcome once again to the NXT TRACKER, where I pick an NXT talent, assess their progression to this point and make bold, sure-to-look-hilarious-in-retrospect predictions about their future prospects. Let’s look at that li’l up-and-comer Eric […]
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